The Dallas daily herald. [volume] (Dallas, Tex.) 1873-1887, 1887-05-03
CURRENT EVENTS.


niauy as 3, 1872 living bacteria In cubic cent?
meter OF Ice taken from the Hudson river.
Oleomarrarine manufacturers are lay.
ing in large quantities Of the juice OF on
tous and garlic to meet the demand for fresh
spring butter.
At Austin, New, the other day, squnw
book three ifty-pound sacks OF -four on her
hack, then on top OF this placed yenrlins
pspoos., when she trotted of as brlsily as a
Soung colt
Winter fingers tenaciousy In upper Yer
mont. Ice.yschting on Lake Chumplain,
day or two ago, was as good as II had been all
Ginter, and was expectc to continue for nj
teast another week slelgh!ng Is reported
good yet Ia al the lake towns.
An inventor in Auburn, Ne, who SAYS th?t
&c has worked 10 days of ten hours each IN
the last two years, and very few of them on
SUNDAYS attributes his endurance largely Ia
Che fact that he eats but one meal in twenty.
-FOUR hours, and that very simple.
The Indians In the viclnIty Of Blackfoo.
agency live high lurlng the winter having
ikiunel, cat up and 1rlc the m at Of all the
rattle wa,ch have dlol. This spring they are
,iaing liud-oglce business In skinnng cattle
for which they receive IS cents per skin.
Tie pet goat Of Mrs Cassidy, Of Roxbury,
Mass, Is dead. Ills death was due to the fact
shat he couldn't resist the temptation to butt
mis- mistress as size was bending over the vel!
DRAWN: bucket OF water. AS soon as she
was ished out OF the well she ordered his liz
slant execution.
MIR Nathe Gill, near Mer;weather, Ga, be
ing troubled with rats, filed a caldion with
aater, on which he sprInIei a thick layer OF
coatoa-scel and bits Of tempting bait. The
ueIt morning he hal Gfty-two drowned rats
ia the biz pot, and the morning following that
there we're for,y.two more
Only twice before has the bishop Of Connect
:1; hcll the seniority in the Episcopal house
VI bishops. Bishop Seabury was senior bishop
from 1854 to 1861 and Bishop Browne'l from
1852 ~ 1855. When present senior bishop,
Bishop Williams, was consccrated in 1851 there
we're thirty.four bishop, older thaa himself
Thomas Wight, of Ot!shcld, Me-, who recent
u died ut the age OF %, was called the most
eccnriric man In the state. Some of this repu
satiou CAN'T rom the statement that for many
years he ate half pint OF wood ashes every
azy They are said to have agreed with him,
foe he was peyer Ill day until his last brief
sickness.
Trade dollars are fast disappearing from the
business circles OF Wall street. The few that
srr offered come chiefly from the country.
The theory Is that when the coin was selling nj
- cents many were melted aud used for man
pfscturiug purposes. The coin being 9OJ line
and containing 400 grains, it was cheaper than
hrnion.
scyeral gears ago a few deer were let loose
eD TIE mountains east Of Bennington, and
siace that an cIor: has been made to enforce
she law forbiddiny anyone to kill deer in Yer
mont. The result Is that already here and
there throughout the state deer arr seen, and
- the law has yet three years to run 1t Is
quite likely that the Green mounhins may in
time bc well stocked.
On Easter Sunday evening, during the seryi-
ces in tie Evangelical church of Allentown,
Pa, while the minister was in the midst OF
his sermon, an elderly lady walked up the
mid die aisle and handed him four Easter eggs,
then took seat In the corner OF one of tue
front pews, where she listened to the rest OF
NiAh nppiAcht ihN''S'N, ""N "'NS'
the service wcnt home with the rest.
The cricket club of Taftville, Conn, played
their ars. game OF the season the other day,
and during the game Robert Greenwood. the
umpire. was struck by batted ball on the
side OF The head. The accident was nor
though! serious at the time, rs he was able to
wNlk from the field home The cricket club
was giving concert in the evening when the
lnieligeucs OF his death was received. Tie
audience was dismissed.
Flats are no longer good-paying property in
New York city. The reason assigned is too
mach competition among the landlords and
unreasonable demands on the part oil the
ieuants. A Hat tenant OF today wants coal
Coz The ranges and pretty much everything
tUt berfsteSk. Such people are careless in
She treatment OF apartments and quit for
sll-ht reasons. The landlords expenses are
large aud with increasing competition he
3oc=u't enjoy owning fats.
The other day a Massachusetts, church sent
20 q well known theological seminary for a
student, specifying as their chief desire that
b. SHOULD he Christian. A sister seminary
te seived about the same time communication
from rural church running as follows; I'VE
don't want any young man; we want an old
man or a married man. The Young men
cause trouble to the fond mothers, airt with
ate girl>, and give Us veal instead OF beef"
japanese orange trees are thus spoken o:
"a Ta> Z,4,are (Cal) Times in connection With
the arrival OF large consignment of them:
.The japanese orange tree is propagatei in
its native country In climate where the soil
freezes In November and remains frozen until